Contemporary feminist art by women in North Africa : body talks /
"Dissects the diverse perceptions of the body and how it becomes symbolically charged in the artwork of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists: Majida Khattari, Lalla Essaydi, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Déborah Benzaquen, Fatima Mazmouz and Zaïnab Fasiki. With a focus on the French, Maghrebi, and...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham [Maryland] ; Boulder [Colorado] ; New York [New York] :
Lexington Books,
[2024]
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| Series: | After the empire.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I, Ornamentation and the female body : between subversive presence and imagination: Ornate bodies : symbolic markers of the Arab female body in Majida Khattari's photography ; The elusiveness of Arab women : their subversive presence in the architectural photographic space of Lalla Essaydi
- Part II, Female body and transgression : gender and sexuality: Women's body, empowerment and "soft transgression" : found in some of Zoulikha Bouabdellah's artworks ; Transgressive bodies : exploring the outlier identities and bodies in Déborah Benzaquen's photography
- Part III, Liberation of the female body : nudity revisited: Liberating the body in Fatima Mazmouz's photographic work : from the personal to the political ; Decriminalizing the body : art and nudity against the Hshouma by Zaïnab Fasiki
- Conclusion.